Free Paragon Drive Backup 9.5 Professional!

Paragon Drive Backup Professional is a commercial backup (image and file) software. These are the main features of Paragon Drive Backup 10 Professional per the developer:

For a limited time (from Friday, 9:00AM on 30th of April to 9:00AM on Tuesday, 4th of May EST) users can get Paragon Drive Backup 9.5 Professional for free:

To get Paragon Drive Backup 9.5 Professional for free, download it from the following links (keep in mind you will have to register during installation, just like you have to register all Paragon products):

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Seems to work fine in Windows 7. This appears to be a hybrid of v. 10 because it works on win7 and it offers FTP backup (which 9 doesn’t).

Vs. 10Free it offers file backup and incremental backup. The added weight of the install comes from the various flavors of it (x86, x64, PE) that are included. No “bloat” at all.

IMHO, this is well worth it. I *used* to be a big Acronis fan but Paragon does the same plus the PE version has some disk fixing ability that Acronis (TrueImage) doesn’t AND Paragon is a lot simpler to use. With Acronis I was never real sure of what I was overwriting and it was easy to make a mistake (though I never did). With Paragon, it is very clear what is being done

Dan Bromberg

I currently have Paragon’s 9.0 Personal Backup installed on my Vista/64 bit (home) PC. Any thoughts on the benefits of upgrading to this 9.5 Professional edition? It appears to be 3 times the size so what ‘must-have’ features are offered in this pro version?
Thanks in advance for any and all replies!
Dan

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@SS:
If you have the program installed, open it and under settings change the compression settings to Best. You may want to go to the program’s layout.ini and change a setting there. Change Best Compression level (2-9) = 2 to Best Compression level (2-9) = 9. This will reduce the archive size although it may prolong the process of making one and will use a bit more resources.

mukhi

can anybody tell me which the program for one to one back-up is? i don’t want OS and programs to be backed up, i simply want all of my files in an external drive to be backed up in another external drive in simplest form, for example, if i have two folders, say, videos and documents in the root of source drive, i want to see videos and documents folders in the root of destination drive (just like copy/paste of windows explorer). unfortunately, i find most back-up software don’t do this way.

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The download includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit installation files. I extracted the files from the 32-bit msi and compared them to files I extracted from Drive Backup Pro 10. All files from each extracted Data1.cab have the same md5 hashes except for hdm.dll.

So in essence, this giveaway is Drive Backup Pro version 10.0.10.10505 which is fully compatible with windoze7, according to their product page that is.

Ashraf

@Continuity Expert:I posted v10 features (and I specifically mention they are v10 features) because there is no way of knowing v9.5 features (Paragon does not releases “feature lists” for special editions) and from past experience, I know that often times v9.5 = v10.

@OldElmerFudd: Go ahead and post the registration URL, but not serial (serial is unique to each person anyway).

Continuity Expert

The download is of version 9.5 Professional, yet when describing the feature set, you mention the features of v10 Professional…
Now, I understand you probably did this because the feature sets are understandably similar. However, I think you should make clear anything you know or is documented to be different in the new version. Otherwise it could be considered misleading…

Horst

I know how this works. But i don´t want to install it now. And my primary PC is NOT running windoze.
Since paragon will deactivate the reg-page after the giveaway period there is no need to keep the stupid URL secret!

Last time the reg-page even was disabled the first two days of the giveaway period. After a few thousand mails to the support the page was finally available on the third day of the giveaway.

OldElmerFudd

OldElmerFudd

@Horst: You call up the registration page during the installation process. After registering, Paragon sends you an email with the product key and serial number. Btw, on the registration page the “send me news, etc. is checked by dault. Uncheck if you don’t want anything like that

@Gil: It’s Farrukkh’s birthday, not mine. My birthday is June 29th, about a thousand years ago…

OldElmerFudd

While I still use Acronis and Genie-Soft products, I’ve always enjoyed the easy way Paragon Products preform. I have HDM Manager Suite 2010 on a laptop, so I’ll keep this for a friend’s machine. Thanks for the head’s up!

Farrukh

KHamm

I’ve had some problems with Paragon backup products, but this is worth a try at least. What I need is a backup that will:
1. Do a FULL backup copy of my C: drive, including page file, registry, etc.
2. Do differential backups so only the files that have changed are added to the main backup.
3. Allow me to test the backup without deleting or overwriting my C: drive. I should be able to boot from my backup drive if my main drive flakes.
We’ll see if this has all of that.